Retracing the steps of a surprising array of 20th-century writers who ventured into the fantastical, topsy-turvy world of Lewis Carroll's fictions, this book demonstrates the full extent of Carroll's legacy in literary modernism.
This is the first volume to consistently examine Soviet engagement with world literature from multiple institutional and disciplinary perspectives: intellectual history, literary history and theory, comparative literature, translation studies, diaspora studies.
Neue literaturwissenschaftliche und interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf das Werk des Schweizer Schriftstellers Friedrich DürrenmattDie Wechselbeziehung zwischen Wirklichkeit und Fiktion prägt das literarische Schaffen von Friedrich Dürrenmatt ebenso wie seine poetologische und kritische Reflexion.
Dissonances of Modernity illuminates the ways in which music, as an artifact, a practice, and a discourse redefines established political, social, gender, and cultural conventions in Modern Spain.
In 1908, Joseph Conrad was criticised by a reviewer for being a man 'without either country or language': even his shipboard communities were the product of a 'cosmopolitan' vision.
Women's Health in Britain and America: Texts and Contexts offers an unparalleled record of women's health in the United Kingdom and the United States since 1750.
Statt realer nimmt Kaiser imaginäre Orte des Dichtens in den Blick und lässt so eine kleine Literaturgeschichte der deutschen und französischen Literatur der letzten 300 Jahre entstehenUntrennbar verbinden sich mit der Imago vieler Dichter Bilder von Orten, an denen sie freiwillig oder gezwungen lebten.
Ästhetische, politische, ethnische und Gender-Aspekte des Tanzes in Vicki Baums Erzählwerk, journalistischen Arbeiten und ReiseberichtenDie Schriftstellerin Vicki Baum symbolisierte den Typus der "Neuen Frau" in der Weimarer Republik, zu deren emanzipiertem, selbst- und körperbewusstem Lebensstil nicht zuletzt der Tanz gehörte.
Originally published in 1991, this elegantly written book offers new readers a useful approach to the work of Evelyn Waugh and will persuade those familiar with it to look at it afresh.
Shakespeare in the 'Post'Colonies provides a wide-ranging examination of engagements with and adaptations of Shakespeare in regions that were once under European colonial rule.
The 1931 Universal Pictures film adaptation of Frankenstein directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff as the now iconic Monster claims in its credits to be 'Adapted from the play by Peggy Webling'.
The book positions Sanskrit poetics in a postcolonial context to understand its contemporary relevance and proposes a productive future direction for this system of knowledge.
The literary response to the dawning cult of wakefulness A turn-of-the-century influx of new technologies and the enormous impact of the electric light transformed not only individual sleeping habits but the ways American culture conceived and valued sleep.
Das Thema der kollektiven Autor:innenschaft, bereits in den 1990er Jahren mit Blick auf die damals neuen technologischen Möglichkeiten breiter diskutiert, scheint aktuell erneut auf ein wachsendes Interesse zu stoßen, etwa unter dem Stichwort der ›Kollaboration‹.
Focusing on Alice Munro's last three collections, this book examines the differences between these volumes and the rest of her work to analyse the emergence and the difference of her 'late style'.
Aus einer inter- und transmedialen Perspektive geht dieser Band den verschiedenen semantischen Ordnungsprozessen nach, die in der künstlerischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg während des 20.
Die Beiträge untersuchen Michael Endes Poetik und das Verhältnis des als Kinder- und Jugendbuchautor wahrgenommenen Autors zum literarischen und intellektuellen Feld der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
Animal Fiction in Late Twentieth-Century Canada fulfils a vital contribution to the conversation surrounding animal representation as a point of continuity in national narratives and supports the idea that focusing on narratives of responsibility and care influences better relations with both non-human animals and across settler-Indigenous boundaries.
Animal Fiction in Late Twentieth-Century Canada fulfils a vital contribution to the conversation surrounding animal representation as a point of continuity in national narratives and supports the idea that focusing on narratives of responsibility and care influences better relations with both non-human animals and across settler-Indigenous boundaries.
Collecting in full for the first time the correspondence between Ezra Pound and members of Leo Frobenius' Forschungsinstitut f r Kulturmorphologie in Frankfurt across a 30 year period, this book sheds new light on an important but previously unexplored influence on Pound's controversial intellectual development in the Fascist era.
